ORSTRALIA - THE NEW AUSTRALIAN PUNK EXPLOSION
If you think that Australian punk rock begins and ends with The Saints and Radio Birdman , let it be known that this sparsely populated country south of the equator has been spewing out quality snot caked punk tune-age with attitude to burn since before those seminal bands scorched the earth. Back in the sixties The Atlantics ripped out the track Come On after trading their surf guitar for an el cheapo six string noise maker with a fuzz box. Australian bands have been pumping out the raw stuff with wild abandon ever since. Over each generation there's been our fair share of troublemakers forming bands brewing up untamed sounds under monikers such as The Missing Links , The Purple Hearts , The Victims , X , Scientists , Cosmic Psychos , Bored! , The Powder Monkeys , Hoss and Eddy Current Suppression Ring . In the last ten years like minded bands have continued to rise from the muck to yet again stoke the garage punk flame and mutate it into ever more unexpected brain frying ways